A. All aboveground or underground sumps, tanks or other peripheral facilities and equipment, including any areas of oil field wastes or drilling muds, as those terms are interpreted by the Division of Oil and Gas pursuant to their applicable regulations, shall be removed from the area to be developed and relocated prior to or in connection with residential development of the area, and shall be certified and/or approved by the State Division of Oil and Gas as meeting the requirements of their regulations 1776(a) and (b) as to those areas and facilities governed thereby.
B. The developer's engineer shall identify all such areas of drilling muds and oil field wastes in the preliminary report required by Section 7006(c) of the Uniform Building Code, and shall certify that all such muds and wastes have been removed from the site in his final report as required by Section 7015(a)2 of the Uniform Building Code.
C. All operating wells, whether injectors or producers, shall be operated by electric motors and served by underground pipelines and electric service, all of which shall be located or relocated in public or private streets or public or private common open space areas.
D. Rotary mud, drill cuttings, oil field wastes, oil or other liquid hydrocarbons and all other oil field wastes derived or resulting from, or connected with, on-going operations relating to the reworking, redrilling or recompletion of any well shall be discharged into a portable steel sump tank. The tank and all such materials shall be removed forthwith from the drill site upon completion of such operation.
E. If the City Council has approved and adopted a Development Agreement wherein the developer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold the City harmless for any and all liabilities, costs or expenses incurred as a result of any claim or legal action taken by any person on the basis of any muds, waste or soil contamination on the property covered by the Development Agreement, such muds and wastes may be remediated on site rather than removed, providing that the developer's soils engineer certifies that it has been done so in accordance with applicable rules and regulations of county and state agencies.
(Ord. 2982, 2001)